A small plane crashes in Tennessee, killing the 3 on board

A unique motor plane crashed in Tennessee on Saturday morning, killing three people on board, officials said.

The Mooney M20TN crashed south of Upperland Upperland regional airport in Sparta, According to a declaration by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Upper Cumberland’s regional airport director Dean Selby said the airport had heard on an airplane down around 11:50 a.m. short time, the Memphis air traffic control center called the airport to say that it had lost communication and contact with an airplane.

The plane left Alabama and was on his descent into the airport when he crashed, Selby said.

Emergency and fire and rescue workers, as well as volunteers, looked for the accident site and were able to find it after the airport sent an airplane to search in the air, said the director.

Selby described the area where the plane was found as “distant”.

The Federal Aviation Administration, who said she was investigating, arrived on the spot a few hours after the accident, said Selby. The National Transportation Safety Board, investigationwill arrive on Sunday.

Selby said the airport does not publish any of the identities of the victims until the closest is warned.

Sparta is around 96 miles southeast of Nashville.

A number of small planes have dropped in recent weeks, killing all the passengers on board each time.

Last month, a The plane crashed into a house Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. About two weeks later, another I went into New York State.

Three were killed when a The plane crashed in a river in Nebraska last Saturday, and four others died on Sunday when a Unique motor planes crashed in Illinois.